Elizabeth, NJ — Alpha Wire has introduced a new product for the rapidly expanding Wind Power market — creating a portfolio of high-performance cable for applications in the Wind Power market, including power distribution, control, and monitoring within the wind turbine.

Vista, CA — CH Products, an APEM company, is offering its HFX Single Axis Throttle — a heavy-duty Hall effect joystick that reportedly delivers precise proportional one-axis control. The HFX uses "friction-clutch" centering, meaning the handle maintains the position set by the operator. The throttle is also available with up to three electrical micro switches as well as seven mechanical...

Camarillo, CA — Binder-USA has added overmolded cordsets to the Series 620 and Series 720 family of plastic snap-in connectors. The snap-in locking system allows quick connect and disconnect of the mated pair. Snap-in locking connectors are commonly used for commercial and light-duty medical applications ...

Yorba Linda, CA — B+K Precision's new family of full featured handheld spectrum analyzers consists of three models: Model 2650A with a frequency range of 50kHz to 3.3GHz, Model 2652A, identical to the 2650A but with a tracking generator added, and Model 2658A with a frequency range of 50kHz to 8 ...

Markham, Ont., Canada — CableTest Systems, Inc., has introduced its newest add-on to the high performance MPT series wiring analyzer — the MPT indoor/outdoor digital temperature and humidity Temp/RH probe. With the new probe, critical resistance and high voltage test results are enhanced by capturing ...

Concord, CA — Calex Manufacturing Co., Inc. has introduced two new GX Series DC-DC coinverters. The two models in the new series are designed to satisfy a variety of demanding applications. They offer built-in load sharing for easy circuit integration and parallel operation or power source redundancy ...

Old Saybrook, CT — New Contrinex Series 4050 photoelectric sensors with considerably improved background suppression are built into a 40 x 50 x 15mm housing. They provide a long operating distance of 500mm, with a setting range from 20 to 500mm. The operating distance is independent of the target ...

Iselin, NJ — EPCOS has developed a new series of PTC thermistors in the SMD 0603 case size specifically designed for LED driver circuits. Compared to conventional PTC limit temperature sensors, the new PTCs offer two decisive benefits: their rated resistance has a narrower tolerance of ±15 percent ...

El Segundo, CA — Epson Toyocom Corporation has developed what the company describes as the world's smallest 32.768kHz crystal oscillator. The maximum dimensions of the new crystal oscillator, SG-3050BC, are only 2.2 x 1.4 x 1.0mm. With a 70 percent smaller footprint and 75 percent smaller cubic volume ...

Lockport, IL — GaGe has introduced The Razor family of high-speed, high-resolution, multi-channel digitizers. The Razor CompuScope 16XX family provides up to 4 channels in a single-slot PCI card with up to 200MS/s sampling per channel, and up to 4GB of on-board acquisition memory.

Schaumburg, IL — Heidenhain has introduced ExI 1100 Series inductive rotary encoders in versions whose mating dimensions are the same as those of common types of resolvers. Depending on the respective applications and accuracy requirements, inductive or optical absolute encoders are now possible ...

Peachtree City, GA — US-based German company Hoffmann + Krippner has launched its OPAL Industrial Control Unit — a membrane touch-panel keyboard and screen. According to the company, the OPAL ("operations panel") brand serves as an economical alternative to...

Ironwood Electronics has introduced its new high performance socket for the 176QFP with E-pad — SS-QFE176SC-01. The contactor is a spring pin (pogo) with 20 gram actuation force per ball and cycle life of 500,000 insertions.

Tampa, FL — A complete line of application-specific ferrites has been developed by Leader Tech to feed into the rapidly growing Bluetooth and RFID electronics using the frequency of 2.45GHz. Now available are multiple cable-mounted FerriShield Ferrites that are designed to remove unwanted high-frequency interference signals for applications...